TANGYAN, Myanmar (Reuters) – Zhou Xing Ci’s family have farmed poppies for as long as anyone remembers, scraping the flowers’ sticky brown sap to produce opium. Along with many other farmers in the hills of eastern Myanmar, the crop – much of which ends up as heroin sold on foreign streets – has in recent […]
Myanmar hills embrace silkworms over poppies
May 11, 2018 by Thiha
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Myanmar Govt Allows Oil and Gas Firms to Name Profit-Sharing Terms
September 26, 2013 by thiha
In an apparent bid to make tenders to explore for oil and gas more attractive, Burma’s Ministry of Energy is inviting international companies preparing their bids to suggest their own terms for profit sharing with the government, a ministry official said Tuesday. The ministry is currently accepting bids from companies for exploration licenses on 18 […]
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Aung Kyaw Htoo, Chevron, China, CMT, CNPC, Daewoo of South Korea, Deputy Director, Deputy Energy Minister, Jean Loi, Legal Consultants VDB Loi, Lynn Myint, Management Technology, Managing Partner, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Energy’s Production Planning Section, Myanmar Oil & Gas Enterprise, Myanmar Oil and Gas conference, Myint Zaw, North Petro-Chem Corporation (Myanmar) Ltd, Ooredoo, PTTEP, Rangoon, telenor, Thailand, Total of France, United States, Vice General Manager
